Membership

Members of the Veterinary Products Committee and recent minutes.


Members and their qualification status

There are currently 18 members of the Veterinary Products Committee (VPC):

  • Ms Helen Ballantyne, chair
  • Dr David Bartley, parasitologist
  • Dr Amy Beckett, veterinary surgeon (food safety)
  • Dr Mark Bowen, veterinary surgeon (equine)
  • Mr Benjamin Buckle, toxicologist
  • Mr Michael Clark, veterinary surgeon (poultry)
  • Dr Siȃn-Marie Frosini, clinical microbiologist
  • Dr Kannan Ganapathy, veterinary surgeon (poultry and novel vaccines)
  • Dr Martin Hawes, pharmacologist
  • Mr Mark Jelley, working farmer
  • Mrs Fiona Kidd, Suitably Qualified Person (SQP)
  • Professor David Killick, veterinary surgeon (mixed/small animal)
  • Dr David Mackay, veterinary surgeon (immunologist)
  • Mr Ronnie Soutar, veterinary surgeon (fish)
  • Professor Jonathan Statham, veterinary surgeon (large animal)
  • Dr Alex Thomsett, veterinary surgeon (pigs)
  • Dr John Tulloch, epidemiologist and statistician
  • Professor Jason Weeks, environmental scientist

Members' biographies and declarations of interests (PDF, 163 KB, 6 pages)

Minutes

The committee meets about 3 times a year.

VPC minutes, 23 October 2025 (PDF, 191 KB, 5 pages)

VPC minutes, 12 June 2025 (PDF, 213 KB, 7 pages)

VPC minutes, 13 February 2025 (PDF, 279 KB, 6 pages)

VPC minutes, 24 October 2024 (PDF, 120 KB, 4 pages)

VPC minutes, 23 May 2024 (PDF, 280 KB, 7 pages)

VPC Minutes, 8 February 2024 (PDF, 216 KB, 6 pages)

VPC Minutes, 19 October 2023 (PDF, 134 KB, 7 pages)

VPC Minutes, 25 May 2023 (PDF, 120 KB, 7 pages)

VPC minutes, 9 February 2023 (PDF, 120 KB, 6 pages)

VPC minutes, 6 October 2022 (PDF, 161 KB, 7 pages)

VPC minutes, 26 May 2022 (PDF, 128 KB, 6 pages)

VPC minutes 3 February 2022 (PDF, 107 KB, 5 pages)

VPC Minutes 30 September 2021 (PDF, 148 KB, 6 pages)

VPC minutes 20 May 2021 (PDF, 121 KB, 6 pages)

VPC Minutes 4 February 2021 (PDF, 117 KB, 6 pages)